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Effortless App Development with Oracle Visual Builder

By : Ankur Jain
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Effortless App Development with Oracle Visual Builder

By: Ankur Jain

Overview of this book

Organizations are moving their applications, data, and processes to the cloud to reduce application costs, effort, and maintenance. However, adopting new technology poses challenges for developers, solutions architects, and designers due to a lack of knowledge and appropriate practical training resources. This book helps you get to grips with Oracle Visual Builder (VB) and enables you to quickly develop web and mobile applications and deploy them to production without hassle. This book will provide you with a solid understanding of VB so that you can adopt it at a faster pace and start building applications right away. After working with real-time examples to learn about VB, you'll discover how to design, develop, and deploy web and mobile applications quickly. You'll cover all the VB components in-depth, including web and mobile application development, business objects, and service connections. In order to use all these components, you'll also explore best practices, security, and recommendations, which are well explained within the chapters. Finally, this book will help you gain the knowledge you need to enhance the performance of an application before deploying it to production. By the end of this book, you will be able to work independently and deploy your VB applications efficiently and with confidence.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
1
Section 1: Exploring the Building Blocks of VB
5
Section 2: Working with Data and Services
10
Section 3: Building Web and Mobile Apps Using Various VB Components
15
Section 4: Security, Recommendations, Best Practices, and Troubleshooting

Understanding the application's structure

In order to create a web or mobile application, a VB application must be created first, as mentioned in the Creating a VB application section. A VB application can be used to create multiple web and mobile applications. A web application can be created by clicking on the + icon from the Web Applications navigator.

The following screenshot depicts how to create a web application:

Figure 3.16 – Creating a web application

Figure 3.16 – Creating a web application

Similarly, a mobile application can be created by clicking on the + icon from the Mobile Applications navigator.

The following screenshot depicts how to create a mobile application:

Figure 3.17 – Creating a mobile application

Figure 3.17 – Creating a mobile application

When a web or mobile application is created, a default structure of an application will be created with the necessary folders and files.

The following screenshot depicts the web application structure:

Figure 3.18 – Web application structure ...